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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






2. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






3. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






4. Transit of Venus on June 9.






5. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






6. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






7. Transit of Venus on June 11.






8. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






9. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






10. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






11. Transit of Venus on June 9.






12. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






13. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






14. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






15. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






16. Triple conjunction Mars






17. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






18. Triple conjunction Mars






19. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






20. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






21. Mercury occults Neptune.






22. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






23. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






24. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






25. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






26. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






27. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






28. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






29. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






30. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






31. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






32. December 10






33. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






34. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






35. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






36. December 10






37. Triple conjunction Mars






38. Triple conjunction Mars






39. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






40. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






41. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






42. Transit of Mercury.






43. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






44. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






45. Triple conjunction Mars






46. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






47. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






48. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






49. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






50. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World